Etna volcano
Europe’s largest active volcano with a new erup, of an Estrombolian -like eruption, similar to an episode that occurred in 2014. However, the signal is that it is calming.
The Italian volcano again erupted erupted with strong explosions, raising a dense spine of tobacco and a gushing of pyroclastic material (ashes, rock and magma) in the southeast strand, was released Monday.
Monday’s eruption was closed on Tuesday, but the volcano is still under surveillance. The authorities assured that the eruption of the ethna – The largest active volcano of the European plate, Situated on Sicily Islandin southern Italy – it is not dangerous to the population, because it has not exceeded 2,800 meters in altitude.
The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv), accompanying the situation, confirmed with its thermal chambers the presence of pyroclastic flows, lava gourds and moving gases at soil level.
The flow, explained the observatory, was probably caused by the collapse of a part of the southeast craterbut “hot material does not seem to have gone beyond” the lion valley, which walkers often cross their climb to Etna.
The president of the region of Sicily, Renato Schifani, excluded “moment” any danger to the population, according to information received from Civil Protection. “According to the first data, the material did not exceed the limit of the Leon Valley and, they assured me, there is no danger to the population,” he said.
However, tourists in the middle of the hill were forced to run out of danger:
The first Ingv notification was made at 2:39 pm (1h39 of Lisbon) Sunday, when warned to “a sudden variation of parameters” at an altitude of 2,800 meters in the huge and very active Sicilian volcano. Then found a Estrombolian type activity – Explosive, but freeing “modest” energy – in the Southeast crater, as well as “a progressive increase” of tremors.
Ingv states that explosive activity in the southeast crater gave rise to lava eruptions and that volcanic tremors have reached “very high values.”
This eruption of Etna – the 14th in recent months – can be perfectly observed from the neighboring city of Catania (south), which, however, maintains its operational airport. According to technicians’ measurements, the energy level of the ongoing eruptive activity is decreasing, which It may be a sign that this eruption phase may be coming to an end.
Stefano Branca, director of Ingv, said that “since February 2021 that there was no volcanic activity so intense in ETNA”Comparing this eruptive phase to a similar episode in 2014, according to the Italian news agency Ansa.
The time of this morning, during the final phase of the eleventh eruptive episode of the South-East crater: the latest intense explosions accompanied by a modest emission of ash. Video by Marcello Heli
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Nonetheless, the Sicilian civil protection official, save Cocina, recommended walkers to be “extreme care” and “avoid the zone around the summit of the volcano.” At least “until new warning” due to the “potential evolution of the phenomenon,” he said.
